Well, I always swears by me cutlass when there is heavy work to be done. Nothing like a good double-handed back hand with a cutlass in the gizzard to end any argument quick smart.

Naturally I never goes anywhere without a dirk in me boot, one down me strides, and another in me girdle. You never knows!

Then, of course a pistol is a fine thing indeed in its place, but they be new-fangled gadgets what don't really take to gettin' seawater and any other muck and filth what you typically experience at sea, and so on in 'em, so I really thinks they be more of a lubber weapon and just as likely to prove unreliable in a tight spot (that's when your cutlass comes into its own! Yaaaaar!).

Har har! Soon Portsmouth will be positively swarming with wee pirate urchins! Little wee peg-legs and eye patches in the shops an all! Dirks R Us opening up on every street corner. Does bring a sentimental tear to me eye!

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Yaaaar! DaveL - hitting a flying target of that nature takes some skill, a dead eye and a sober gunner - perhaps too big a call?

We could dig a pit trap for 'em? Do yez think? We could bait it with some wee urchins? We could also try a little booby trappin'? I'm thinking some explodin' fairy lights, that kind of thing. That's using yer scone.

tanguerra wrote:Har har! Soon Portsmouth will be positively swarming with wee pirate urchins! Little wee peg-legs and eye patches in the shops an all! Dirks R Us opening up on every street corner. Does bring a sentimental tear to me eye!

Arrrrrr...I think ye has just put down the best descripshun o Portsmouth so far!

Ye jus left out the other senses o Smell and Sound what are best left to the himaginashun!

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

Eh Cap'n DaveL, there be this very stoopid lookin feller out th' back o' the Scurvey Dog wot reckons e' can get ye three container loads (wotevva that meens) o somethin e' calls "Paytreeyotte Missyles". I dunno about this bloke, 'e looks loike a right lubber an' none two brite wiv it neever. Says 'iz name be Jorge W. Shrub or summat. Dyer wanna see 'im or shuld Oi jest tell im to go an invade sum foreign country of somefin.